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Analysis of futures and spot electricity markets under risk aversion. (2020)
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OLIVEIRA, F.S. and RUIZ, C. 2021. Analysis of futures and spot electricity markets under risk aversion. European journal of operational research [online], 291(3), pages 1132-1148. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2020.10.005

We analyze the procurement problem in the electricity supply chain, focusing on the interaction between futures and spot prices. The supply chain network analyzed in our study includes risk-averse generators and retailers, both with the ability to us... Read More about Analysis of futures and spot electricity markets under risk aversion..

Human pose estimation-based real-time gait analysis using convolutional neural network. (2020)
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ROHAN, A., RABAH, M., HOSNY, T. and KIM, S.-H. 2020. Human pose estimation-based real-time gait analysis using convolutional neural network. IEEE access [online] 8, pages 191542-191550. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3030086

Gait analysis is widely used in clinical practice to help in understanding the gait abnormalities and its association with a certain underlying medical condition for better diagnosis and prognosis. Several technologies embedded in the specialized dev... Read More about Human pose estimation-based real-time gait analysis using convolutional neural network..

Electroplating of thick hard chromium coating from a trivalent chromium bath containing a ternary complexing agent: a methodological and mechanistic study. (2020)
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XU, L., PI, L., DOU, Y., CUI, Y., MAO, X., LIN, A., FERNANDEZ, C. and PENG, C. 2020. Electroplating of thick hard chromium coating from a trivalent chromium bath containing a ternary complexing agent: a methodological and mechanistic study. ACS sustainable chemistry and engineering [online], 8(41), pages 15540-15549. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c04529

Trivalent chromium electroplating is considered a greener alternative to hexavalent chromium electroplating. However, the electrochemical reduction of Cr(III) in aqueous solution is extremely unstable and the thickness of the coating can hardly grow... Read More about Electroplating of thick hard chromium coating from a trivalent chromium bath containing a ternary complexing agent: a methodological and mechanistic study..

Damping properties of flax/carbon hybrid epoxy/fibre-reinforced composites for automotive semi-structural applications. (2020)
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FAIRLIE, G. and NJUGUNA, J. 2020. Damping properties of flax/carbon hybrid epoxy/fibre-reinforced composites for automotive semi-structural applications. Fibers [online], 8(10), article ID 64. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/fib8100064

The ever-increasing demand for environmentally friendly biocomposites for use in various engineering applications requires a strong understanding of these materials properties, especially in automotive applications. This study focused on investigatin... Read More about Damping properties of flax/carbon hybrid epoxy/fibre-reinforced composites for automotive semi-structural applications..

Numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of process parameters on sheet deformation during the electromagnetic forming of AA6061-T6 alloy. (2020)
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KHAN, Z., KHAN, M., JAFFERY, S.H.I., YOUNAS, M., AFAQ, K.S. and KHAN, M.A. 2020. Numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of process parameters on sheet deformation during the electromagnetic forming of AA6061-T6 alloy. Mechanical sciences [online], 11(2), pages 329-347. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5194/ms-11-329-2020

Electromagnetic forming is a high-speed sheet metal forming technique to form metallic sheets by applying magnetic forces. In comparison to the conventional sheet metal forming process, electromagnetic forming is a process with an extremely high velo... Read More about Numerical and experimental investigation of the effect of process parameters on sheet deformation during the electromagnetic forming of AA6061-T6 alloy..

The nutritional and cardiovascular health benefits of rapeseed oil-fed farmed salmon in humans are not decreased compared with those of traditionally farmed salmon: a randomized controlled trial. (2020)
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DE ROOS, B., WOOD, S., BREMNER, D., BASHIR, S., BETANCOR, M.B., FRASER, W.D., DUTHIE, S.J., HORGAN, G.W. and SNEDDON, A.A. 2021. The nutritional and cardiovascular health benefits of rapeseed oil-fed farmed salmon in humans are not decreased compared with those of traditionally farmed salmon: a randomized controlled trial. European journal of nutrition [online], 60(4), pages 2063-2075. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-020-02396-w

Purpose: Farmed fish are increasingly raised on feeds containing vegetable oils, which affects their composition and possibly health properties. We investigated the effects of consuming farmed salmon, raised on different feeding regimes, on nutrient... Read More about The nutritional and cardiovascular health benefits of rapeseed oil-fed farmed salmon in humans are not decreased compared with those of traditionally farmed salmon: a randomized controlled trial..

Updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews. (2020)
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PETERS, M.D.J., MARNIE, C., TRICCO, A.C., POLLOCK, D., MUNN, Z., ALEXANDER, L., MCINERNEY, P., GODFREY, C.M. and KHALIL, H. 2020. Updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews. JBI evidence synthesis [online], 18(10), pages 2119-2126. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11124/JBIES-20-00167

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this paper is to describe the updated methodological guidance for conducting a JBI scoping review, with a focus on new updates to the approach and development of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Met... Read More about Updated methodological guidance for the conduct of scoping reviews..

There’s a time and a place: temporal aspects of place-based stigma. (2020)
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BUTLER-WARKE, A. 2021. There's a time and a place: temporal aspects of place-based stigma. Community development journal [online], 56(2), pages 203-219. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsaa040

This paper provides an overview of current debates and themes in literature relating to place-based stigma, including a reflection on terminology use. Generally, we rely on Loïc Wacquant's framing of territorial stigma as a feature of advanced margin... Read More about There’s a time and a place: temporal aspects of place-based stigma..

What are the barriers and enablers to physical activity participation in women with ovarian cancer? A rapid review of the literature. (2020)
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MORRISON, K.S., PATERSON, C., COLTMAN, C.E. and TOOHEY, K. 2020. What are the barriers and enablers to physical activity participation in women with ovarian cancer? A rapid review of the literature. Seminars in oncology nursing [online], 36(5), article ID 151069. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soncn.2020.151069

Background: Engagement in regular physical activity is recommended for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer due to aggressive treatment approaches, an increased risk of disease recurrence and low survival rates. Objectives: To synthesize the current a... Read More about What are the barriers and enablers to physical activity participation in women with ovarian cancer? A rapid review of the literature..

SAFDet: a semi-anchor-free detector for effective detection of oriented objects in aerial images. (2020)
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FANG, Z., REN, J., SUN, H., MARSHALL, S., HAN, J. and ZHAO, H. 2020. SAFDet: a semi-anchor-free detector for effective detection of oriented objects in aerial images. Remote sensing [online], 12(19), article 3225. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12193225

An oriented bounding box (OBB) is preferable over a horizontal bounding box (HBB) in accurate object detection. Most of existing works utilize a two-stage detector for locating the HBB and OBB, respectively, which have suffered from the misaligned ho... Read More about SAFDet: a semi-anchor-free detector for effective detection of oriented objects in aerial images..

African perspective to the nature based solutions to climate change. (2020)
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NWAZI, J.N. and DEBSKI, J.A. 2020. African perspective to the nature based solutions to climate change. Sub-Saharan African journal of development and administration, 6, pages 1-14.

The natural environment worldwide is increasingly affected by climate change. Among the range of proposed solutions, those provided by nature have been acknowledged worldwide as the most potential. This work attempts to explore the various contexts i... Read More about African perspective to the nature based solutions to climate change..

A novel intelligent computational approach to model epidemiological trends and assess the impact of non-pharmacological interventions for COVID-19. (2020)
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REN, J., YAN, Y., ZHAO, H., MA, P., ZABALZA, J., HUSSAIN, Z., LUO, S., DAI, Q., ZHAO, S., SHEIKH, A., HUSSAIN, A. and LI, H. 2020. A novel intelligent computational approach to model epidemiological trends and assess the impact of non-pharmacological interventions for COVID-19. IEEE Journal of biomedical and health informatics [online], 24(12), pages 3551-3563. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2020.3027987

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to a worldwide crisis in public health. It is crucial we understand the epidemiological trends and impact of non-pharmacological interventions (NPIs), such as lockdowns for effective mana... Read More about A novel intelligent computational approach to model epidemiological trends and assess the impact of non-pharmacological interventions for COVID-19..

A holistic approach to assessment of value of information (VOI) with fuzzy data and decision criteria. (2020)
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VILELA, M., OLUYEMI, G. and PETROVSKI, A. 2020. A holistic approach to assessment of value of information (VOI) with fuzzy data and decision criteria. Decision making: applications in management and engineering [online], 3(2), pages 97-118. Available from: https://doi.org/10.31181/dmame2003097v

Classical decision and value of information theories have been applied in the oil and gas industry from the 1960s with partial success. In this research, we identify that the classical theory of value of information has weaknesses related with optima... Read More about A holistic approach to assessment of value of information (VOI) with fuzzy data and decision criteria..

Changing minds: challenging stereotypes between art and homelessness. (2020)
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HACKETT, C. 2020. Changing minds: challenging stereotypes between art and homelessness. International journal of social, political and community agendas in the arts [online], 15(3), pages 27-43. Available from: https://doi.org/10.18848/2326-9960/CGP/v15i03/27-43

This article provides an analysis of a socially-engaged arts project that took place over a nine-month period, between two quite different groups of people: art students who facilitated the project and homeless men who participated. Four art students... Read More about Changing minds: challenging stereotypes between art and homelessness..

Graphitic-C3N4 coated floating glass beads for photocatalytic destruction of synthetic and natural organic compounds in water under UV light. (2020)
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HUI, J., PESTANA, C.J., CAUX, M., GUNARATNE, H.Q.N., EDWARDS, C., ROBERTSON, P.K.J., LAWTON, L.A. and IRVINE, J.T.S. 2020. Graphitic-C3N4 coated floating glass beads for photocatalytic destruction of synthetic and natural organic compounds in water under UV light. Journal of photochemistry and photobiology A: chemistry [online], 405, article ID 112935. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotochem.2020.112935

Many drinking water reservoirs can contain organic pollutants such as artificial synthesized dye and drugs. On the other hand, some naturally occurring microorganisms such as cyanobacteria, are capable of producing toxic secondary metabolites (cyanot... Read More about Graphitic-C3N4 coated floating glass beads for photocatalytic destruction of synthetic and natural organic compounds in water under UV light..

I don't want to go back: examining the return to physical workspaces during COVID-19. (2020)
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LIU, Z., VAN EGDOM, D., FLIN, R., SPITZMUELLER, C., ADEPOJU, O. and KRISHNAMOORTI, R. 2020. I don't want to go back: examining the return to physical workspaces during COVID-19. Journal of occupational and environmental medicine [online], 62(11), pages 953-958. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1097/JOM.0000000000002012

We study employee perspectives on return to physical workspaces to ultimately inform employers' and policy makers' decision making around the return to work during COVID-19. We tested the three-component conceptual model using survey data collected i... Read More about I don't want to go back: examining the return to physical workspaces during COVID-19..

Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role of spacers and terminal alkyl chains. (2020)
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FORSYTH, E., PATERSON, D.A., CRUICKSHANK, E., STRACHAN, G.J., GORECKA, E., WALKER, R., STOREY, J.M.D. and IMRIE, C.T. 2020. Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role of spacers and terminal alkyl chains. Journal of molecular liquids [online], 320(part A), article 114391. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2020.114391

The synthesis and characterisation of four series of liquid crystal dimers based on benzylideneaniline mesogenic units, and in which the lengths of terminal alkyloxy chains are varied are reported. The series differ in terms of their flexible spacers... Read More about Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role of spacers and terminal alkyl chains..

A fuzzy cooperative localisation framework for underwater robotic swarms. (2020)
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SABRA, A. and FUNG, W.-K. 2020. A fuzzy cooperative localisation framework for underwater robotic swarms. Sensors [online], 20(19), article ID 5496. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/s20195496

This article proposes a holistic localisation framework for underwater robotic swarms to dynamically fuse multiple position estimates of an autonomous underwater vehicle while using fuzzy decision support system. A number of underwater localisation m... Read More about A fuzzy cooperative localisation framework for underwater robotic swarms..

The impact of energy consumption and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions. (2020)
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OSOBAJO, O.A., OTITOJU, A., OTITOJU, M.A. and OKE, A. 2020. The impact of energy consumption and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions. Sustainability [online], 12(19), article ID 7965. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12197965

This study explored the effect of energy consumption and economic growth on CO2 emissions. The relationship between energy consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions was assessed using regression analysis (the pooled OLS regression and fixed effe... Read More about The impact of energy consumption and economic growth on carbon dioxide emissions..

Transforming knowledge systems for life on earth: visions of future systems and how to get there. (2020)
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FAZEY, I., SCHÄPKE, N., CANIGLIA, G., et.al. 2020. Transforming knowledge systems for life on earth: visions of future systems and how to get there. Energy research and social science [online], 70, article ID 101724. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2020.101724

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimul... Read More about Transforming knowledge systems for life on earth: visions of future systems and how to get there..